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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: Allow LD to be a linker other than GNU ld and gold
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 08:43:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87369e32aq.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200313204634.7jrgd2m5ga3l5drk@google.com> (Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha's message of "Fri, 13 Mar 2020 13:46:34 -0700")

* Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha:

> When using lld as the linker, configure prints a confusing message.
>
> *** These critical programs are missing or too old: GNU ld
>
> lld>=8 can build glibc with very few patches. lld may be built with a
> custom version information (e.g. git commit ID), so a version check is not
> useful at all.

If additional patches are still required, we should not change the
configure check at this time.

To be clear, this is an objection from me.  Sorry.

Thanks,
Florian


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-08  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-13 20:46 Fangrui Song
2020-04-07 22:00 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-08  6:43 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2020-04-08  7:11   ` Fangrui Song
2020-04-11 17:07     ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-11 18:42       ` Fangrui Song
2020-04-11 18:58         ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-11 19:21           ` Fangrui Song
2020-04-11 23:53             ` Fangrui Song
2020-04-12  0:28               ` H.J. Lu

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